La Dive Bouteille · 2027

Agoris analysis · updated October 2026

Key takeaways

• La Dive Bouteille is a trade show for natural wine professionals, held every year in early February in Saumur, in Maine-et-Loire. Access is “reserved exclusively for professionals”, according to the official invitation card for the 2026 edition.
• 2027 dates: not yet announced as of 2 October 2026. The official website and the show's Facebook page still display the 2026 edition. This listing will be updated as soon as the official announcement is published.
• Last edition: the 26th, on Sunday 1 and Monday 2 February 2026, from 10am to 6pm, in the Ackerman cellars, in Saumur.
• Observed pattern: since 2019, each edition has been held on a Sunday and the following Monday in early February, except 2022 (6 and 7 March). This pattern is not an announcement for 2027.
• Organiser: SAS Fées et Gestes, which describes itself in the website's legal notice as the organiser of this “professional trade show”.
• Annual frequency. No 2021 edition appears in the official history: the numbering goes from the 21st, in February 2020, to the 22nd, in March 2022.

Who exhibits

Typical profile

The exhibitors are winegrowers, who come to present their wines to professionals. The official plan of the 2026 edition groups them by French region: Loire, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Jura, Alsace, Champagne, Rhône, Provence and Corsica, Bordeaux and the South-West, Languedoc-Roussillon. Some aisles also host foreign winegrowers, notably from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Georgia, Chile and the United States, as well as an area devoted to spirits.

Participation does not work as it does at a conventional commercial trade show: the official website publishes neither an exhibitor registration pack nor a price list, and describes a selection based on people as much as on wines. The official website publishes neither an application procedure nor an exhibitor contact.

Notable exhibitors

The organiser does not publish a named list of exhibitors on its website. No list is available for 2027, as the edition has not yet been announced.

Quality of the audience

The trade show is closed to the general public: the wording “reserved exclusively for professionals” appears on the official 2026 invitation card. The website does not detail which professional profiles are admitted. The organiser publishes no attendance figure and no number of exhibitors on its website.

Events & community

Programme

The official 2026 plan organises the trade show into aisles of winegrowers by region and by country, with no published conference series. The official website presents it first and foremost as “a great party” where winegrowers meet their peers and their public.

Community & networks

According to the shuttle page of the 2026 edition, La Dive Bouteille takes place at the same time as several wine shows in Angers: the friendly shows named are La Levée de la Loire, the Demeter show, the Greniers Saint-Jean, Les Pénitentes and Les Anonymes. For 2027, La Levée de la Loire and the Salon des Vins de Loire have already published their dates: 1 and 2 February 2027, at the Parc des Expositions d'Angers.

In the same winter calendar, two other professional wine events have set their 2027 dates: Millésime BIO, from 25 to 27 January 2027 in Montpellier, and Wine Paris & Vinexpo Paris, from 15 to 17 February 2027 in Paris.

The trade show communicates through its official website, a Facebook page and a YouTube channel. Its posters, called invitation cards, are published on the website (the 2026 card is online).

On site: what you need to know

The 2026 edition was held in the Ackerman cellars, 19 rue Léopold Palustre, Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent, 49400 Saumur. These are troglodyte tuffeau cellars, owned by Maison Ackerman, which describes itself as a Loire sparkling wine house since 1811. The venue for the 2027 edition has not yet been announced.

Specific to the trade show, based on the practical information for the 2026 edition:

• Shuttles: buses run continuously between Saumur railway station, the Breil car park and the show, every half hour, from 9:45am to 12:45pm in the station-to-show direction and from 1:45pm to 6pm in the show-to-station direction.
• Catering: inside the cellars, a coffee point (Cafés de l'Arbre) and outdoor food stands, including oysters, fish soups and street food.
• Accommodation and restaurants: the official website publishes a list of addresses in and around Saumur, including some restaurants open exceptionally during the show.

How much it costs to exhibit

No exhibitor price is published by the organiser, and participation is by selection rather than open registration. The costs to plan for are those of a two-day show: travel and accommodation in Saumur, and transport of bottles and samples. To frame a trade show budget, see the guide to the budget for a trade show stand.

Preparing your visit

For the exhibitor

• Enquire with the organiser: the official website publishes no application form.
• As soon as the 2027 dates are announced, check the overlap with the Angers shows (1 and 2 February 2027).
• Plan the logistics of getting bottles down to underground cellars.

For the professional visitor

• Keep an eye on the show's official website and Facebook page for the announcement of the 2027 dates.
• As soon as the dates are announced, compare them with those of the Angers shows (1 and 2 February 2027).
• The official website mentions shuttles from Saumur railway station and the Breil car park.

Policy & CSR initiatives

The show's official website does not publish a page of environmental or social commitments, and no ISO 20121 certification of the event has been identified. The organiser, SAS Fées et Gestes, does not publish a CSR programme either.

Two verifiable elements relate to the organisation and the venue. The show offers continuous bus shuttles between Saumur railway station, the Breil car park and the cellars. Maison Ackerman, which hosted the 2026 edition, for its part reports a High Environmental Value certification for its vineyard, as well as responsible water management and systematic waste sorting in its logistics: these commitments concern the house's wine-growing activity, not the event.

How the trade show has evolved

Trajectory analysis

La Dive Bouteille is a long-established, regular show: 26 editions in 2026, with a two-day format and a Saumur venue that stayed constant across the 2019 to 2026 editions reviewed. The only visible break: no 2021 edition in the official history (the numbering goes from the 21st in 2020 to the 22nd in 2022) and a 2022 edition shifted to March.

The show was built outside the conventions of the large commercial trade shows: no published attendance figures, no exhibitor price list, communication limited to the website, Facebook and YouTube. For a buyer, it is a natural wine sourcing event, to be placed against the Angers shows once the 2027 dates are announced. For a winegrower, the official website publishes no application procedure: selection is described as depending on “the right person”.

All data that does not mention a source comes from the organiser's website.

Unless otherwise stated, all factual data in this listing comes from the organiser's official website (dive-bouteille.fr).